And you'll probably have to do this again- I bet
yahoo expires the session cookies!
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Donald Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After surprisingly little struggle, I got Plan B working -- logged into
yahoo with wget, saved the cookies, including session cookies, and

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Donald Allen wrote:
The page I get is what would be obtained if an un-logged-in user went to the
specified url. Opening that same url in Firefox *does* correctly indicate
that it is logged in as me and reflects my customizations.
First, LiveHTTPHeaders is the Firefox

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:14 AM, Daniel Stenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Donald Allen wrote:
The page I get is what would be obtained if an un-logged-in user went to
the specified url. Opening that same url in Firefox *does* correctly
indicate that it is logged in as me

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Donald Allen wrote:
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:14 AM, Daniel Stenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Donald Allen wrote:
The page I get is what would be obtained if an un-logged-in user went to
the specified url. Opening that same url

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Donald Allen wrote:
The result of this test, just to be clear, was a page that indicated
yahoo thought I was not logged in. Those extra items firefox is sending
appear to be the difference, because I included them (from the
livehttpheaders output)

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Donald Allen wrote:
The result of this test, just to be clear, was a page that indicated
yahoo thought I was not logged in. Those extra items firefox is sending
appear to

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Donald Allen wrote:
I am doing the yahoo session login with firefox, not with wget, so I'm
using the first and easier of your two suggested methods. I'm guessing
you are thinking that I'm trying to login to the yahoo session with
wget, and thus

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Donald Allen wrote:
I am doing the yahoo session login with firefox, not with wget, so I'm
using the first and easier of your two suggested methods. I'm guessing
you are

After surprisingly little struggle, I got Plan B working -- logged into
yahoo with wget, saved the cookies, including session cookies, and then
proceeded to fetch pages using the saved cookies. Those pages came back
logged in as me, with my customizations. Thanks to Tony, Daniel, and Micah
-- you

2008/9/8 Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I haven't done this but I can speculate that you need to
have wget identify itself as firefox.
When I read this, I thought it looked promising, but it doesn't work.
I tried sending exactly the user-agent string firefox is sending and
still got a page

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Donald Allen wrote:
There was a recent discussion concerning using wget to obtain pages
from yahoo logged into yahoo as a particular user. Micah replied to
Rick Nakroshis with instructions describing two methods for doing
this. This information

Micah Cowan wrote:
The easiest way to do what you want may be to log in using your browser,
and then tell Wget to use the cookies from your browser, using
Given the frequency of the login and then download a file use case , it
should probably be documented on the wiki. (Perhaps it already is.

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Tony Lewis wrote:
Micah Cowan wrote:
The easiest way to do what you want may be to log in using your browser,
and then tell Wget to use the cookies from your browser, using
Given the frequency of the login and then download a file use case ,

At 04:27 PM 8/10/2008, you wrote:
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Rick Nakroshis wrote:
Micah,
If you will excuse a quick question about Wget, I'm trying to find out
if I can use it to download a page from Yahoo that requires me to be
logged in using my Yahoo profile name and

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Rick Nakroshis wrote:
Micah,
If you will excuse a quick question about Wget, I'm trying to find out
if I can use it to download a page from Yahoo that requires me to be
logged in using my Yahoo profile name and password. It's a display of a